Case for bicycle-frames.



No. 636,053. Patented Oct. 3|, 1899.

n. c. momma.

CASE FOR BICYCLE FRAMES.

(Application filed Apr. 19, 1899.)

(No Model.)

IZQVENT R UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HANIBAL C. MORANG, OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS.

CASE FOR BICYCLE-FRAMES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 636,053, dated October31, 1899.

Application filed April 19, 1899. Serial No. 713,550. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HANIBAL O. MORANG, a citizen of the United States,residing in Lynn, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts,have invented a new and Improved Case for Bicycle-Frames, of which thefollowing is a specification.

In shipping and transporting bicycles there is great danger that theframe will become scratched, marred, or otherwise injured. A commonmethod of protecting the frame is to wind bandage-shaped strips aroundall its parts. This, however, is a process occupying considerable time.

It is the object of my invention or improvement to provide a case orcover of leather or other suitable material which will fit the frame andwhich can bev applied to and fastened upon it quickly.

The nature of the invention in detail is fully described below andillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a sideelevation showing my improved case,'portions being represented as brokenout. Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing the portions of the case forthe crankhanger and for adjacent portions of the lower brace, backstay,and bottom tube of the frame. Fig. 3 is a front elevation of a portionof the case which is adapted for the front fork. Fig. 4 is a rearelevation showing portions of the case intended for the upper brace andbackstay of the frame. Fig. 5 shows the portions of my case indicated inFig. 2 lying open.

Similar letters of .reference indicate corresponding parts.

This case is adapted to be constructed of leather, enamel-cloth, fabric,or other suitable material and is of the exact shape of the sixprincipal portions constituting the frame of a bicycle. Inasmuch asthere is more than one style or shape of frame in the market the shapeof my case or covering may be varied somewhat in order to conform to thefew principal styles or designs of bicycle-frames. It is the intentionthat the case shall fit the parts of the frame so closely that it willtake practically but little more room than an ordinary tape or bandagewould occupy when wound around the. different parts of the frame. I

My case comprises six principal parts or sheaths and a minor part, allpermanently connected, so that the case is practically one integralstructure. These parts are as follows: the part or sheath A, which isplaced upon and protects the top tube of the bicycle-frame; the part orsheath B, which protects the bottom tube or bottom stay; the part orsheath 0, which protects the seat-post or backstay; the bifurcated partor sheath D, which protects the front fork; the bifurcated part orsheath E, which protects the upper brace; the part or sheath F, whichprotects the lower brace, and the minor partor sheath H, which protectsthe crank-hanger. The parts B, O, and F radiate from the part H, thepart E connects the outer ends of the parts 0 and F, the part D isconnected with the outer ends of the. parts A and B, and the part A connects the upper portions of the parts 0 and D.

All of the parts A, B, C, D, E, and F are longitudinally divided on oneand the same side, so that the several parts are provided with flaps A,B, O, D, E, and F, which button over-upon the main portions of saidparts or sheaths and are secured in such buttoned position by means ofordinary ball-and-socket fasteners or glove-fasteners, as S. The mainportions of these sheaths are all connected, as shown; but the flies orflaps are free at their ends in order that the case or cover may beapplied sidewise to the frame and have buttons or flies all on the sameside of the frame-that is to say, the openings or flies are on one sideof the frame of the bicycle and the closed portions of the sheaths onthe other side. Exceptions to this, however, are the bifurcated sheathsE, F, and D, in which there is necessarily in each instance an extrasheath, whose opening is on the other side of the case and of the frameof the bicycle. One other exception or partial exception may benoted-via, the sheath H, in which the flap or fly is divided intotongues H, which necessarily face neither side of the case orbicycle-frame.

In applying the case the entire open cover is applied to thebicycle-frame sidewise at the same time and then buttoned into position,as shown, the only parts which are buttoned on the opposite sides beingportions of the bi furcated parts D, E, and F. Thus the operations ofapplying the cover and removing it are rapid and take but a very shorttime.

Having thus fully described my invention, What I claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The herein-described improved case for bicycle-frames, comprising thesheaths A, B, O, D, E, and F each provided with a longitudinal openingfor its entire length, and all the sheaths being connected together asdescribed, the flaps A, B, C, D, E and F buttoning over upon the body ofthe sheaths on the same side of the case, substantially as described.

. 2. The herein-described improved case for bicycle-frames, consistingof the sheaths A, B, C, D, E and F each provided with a 1011- gitudinalopening for its entire length, said sheaths being formed with the flapsA, B, O, D, E and F, said flaps or openings being 011 and facing thesame side; and the sheath H provided with the flaps or tongues H, saidsheaths B, C and F being connected With and radiating from the sheath H,the sheath E connecting the outer ends of the sheaths F and C, thesheath A connecting the outer portions of the sheaths C and D, and saidsheath D being connected with the outer portions of the sheaths A and B,substantially as set forth.

IIANIBAL O. MORANG. Vitnesses:

HENRY W. WILLIAMs, A. N. BONNEY.

